Nanophotonic interferometer realizing all-optical exclusive or gate on a silicon chip

Optical Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Limon, Ofer ^a   Zalevsky, Zeev ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

integrated optics; interference; logic devices; optical circuits

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; EXCLUSIVE-OR; EXCLUSIVE-OR GATE; LOGIC OPERATIONS; MICRO-SCALES; OPTICAL CIRCUITS; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; RELATIVE PHASE; SILICON CHIP; THIN METALLIC LAYER; XOR LOGIC GATES;

INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; LOGIC DEVICES; NANOPHOTONICS; WAVE INTERFERENCE; WAVEGUIDES;

LOGIC GATES;

EID: 81055147146     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3156021     Document Type: Article

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